Author’s POV:

Jessica had woken up around ten minutes ago, but she made no effort to move as she was staring at Kris’s sleeping face. If she moved, then he would move. Jessica didn’t want to wake him up after she saw him looking as peaceful as ever.

Kris shuffled in his sleep, flipping to the side and hugged Jessica tightly from behind before falling back into slumber. Jessica couldn’t help but pout a bit, now that she couldn’t keep staring at Kris’s flawless sleeping face. She decided to keep herself busy by staring into space until her arm accidentally brushed onto Kris’s arm on her waist.

Her eyebrows scrunched up, before peeking down the duvet. Catching sight of Kris’s hand under her shirt, her eyes widened. Jessica bit her lip, as her face was slowly turning into a deep crimson shade. She tilted her head to the side when she realized that having Kris’s hand under her shirt felt normal and even comfortable. Has he always been slipping his hand under her shirt?

Jessica squirmed around innocently, feeling as shy and embarrassed as she felt last night. Kris has been continuously surprising her with his ‘mature’ actions. Never experiencing such intimate skinship before, Jessica was unfamiliar as to how to react, making her end up extremely awkward.

Her excessive moment stirred Kris awake. Squinting his eyes, Kris peeked out to take a glance at Jessica. Adjusting his eyes to the brightness of the room, Kris then shifted his attention to his blushing girlfriend.

“Jess, what’s wrong?” he questioned, his voice husky.

Jessica’s eyes widened at the awakened Kris and immediately shied away and buried herself under the duvet, hiding herself again. Kris furrowed his eyebrows and tightened his arms on her bare waist, wondering what she was up to.

“What are you doing, aegi?” Kris snuggled even closer to her, if possible. “Are you okay?” his fingers under her shirt started to naturally trace random figure eights on her flat tummy.

His motion made Jessica blush even harder under the duvet. How could such simple skinship make her heart pound so furiously? She bit down on her lip, taking in the lovely feeling of electricity run through her body.

Hearing no response from her, Kris became worried and pulled Jessica out from the duvet. A reddened Jessica came into his view and he shuffled on top of her, seeing if she was okay without even taking his hands off of her waist.

“Are you okay?” Kris asked once more, examining her cherry red face with concern. “You’re red.” He traced his lips across her cheek lightly.

Everything Kris was doing just made Jessica beam into a deeper shade of red. From the way he was laying atop her to the way he traced his lips on her cheek made her body paralyzed. Jessica never felt this kind of feeling before, where her heart thumps extremely fast whilst every touch she felt from Kris was as if he was burning her, but in a good way.

Jessica managed to nod her head, as she blinked with focused eyes. It was as if she was intoxicated by Kris’s touch and presence. She tensed up when Kris’s hand moved from her waist up to the bottom of her ribcage.

“Are you sure?” Kris stared straight at her with inquiring eyes.

Unable to give a verbal answer, Jessica simply nodded her head again. She practically held her breath, knowing that Kris’s hands have moved up her torso.

A frown was present on Kris’s face, as he didn’t buy her answer. “What’s bothering you? There’s something wrong, isn’t there?”

Pouting, Jessica shook her head. It was a semi-lie. She was experiencing something she has never felt before, although there didn’t seem to be anything wrong considering that Kris was reacting normally.

Kris tilted his head. He knew there was something wrong and off, regardless of what Jessica told him. Trying to figure it out, he gazed at her intently. When his hands involuntarily moved over her soft skin on her torso, Jessica stiffened.

Raising his eyebrows, a smirk also slid onto Kris’s lips after figuring out why Jessica was as red as a tomato and being as shy as ever.

Wanting to , Kris pretended to be clueless and trailed his fingers over her milky white skin, lingering over her navel. Jessica bit onto her lip and squirmed uselessly as Kris was pinning her down. Moving his hands back up higher, Kris made Jessica tense up.

Quickly sensing that Kris was messing with her, Jessica frowned and tugged on his shirt. “Oppa!” she pouted. “Stop playing around with me!” her face still beet red.

A playful grin appeared on Kris’s face, as he was found out through his act. Seeing Jessica’s face flush into a red color, Kris couldn’t help but want to even more.

Attaching their lips together, Kris also wanted a good morning from Jessica. After feeling her respond to his lips, he slightly smirked before he started to indulge on her pouty lips. Distracting her with his mouth, Kris playfully moved his hands higher up Jessica’s torso. His fingertips were stopped when he reached a lacy material. A smile couldn’t help but appear on his lips, as he knew what he had touched. Tracing his hands onto her side, Kris did not dare to touch her assets at all and slid his fingers over the lacy material on the side flaps of her bra.

A big gasp was emitted from Jessica when she felt Kris’s hand extremely close to her chest area. She quickly retracted from Kris’s lips and slapped her arms over her chest. Her eyes were the size of golf balls, staring at Kris with extreme embarrassment.

Kris was seriously taking their skinship to a whole new level.

Kris grinned when he saw Jessica’s reddened face again. A pout formed on Jessica’s lips for the umpteenth time this morning before she hit Kris’s chest with her petite fist.

“Kris!” she exclaimed. “Why are you being so erted?!” Jessica’s face flushed to a deeper shade of red.

An amused expression came across Kris’s face as he grinned at her cute way of expressing her astonishment. “I’m not being erted, it’s another way to show that I adore you.” He pulled her shirt down to cover every inch of skin on her torso before nuzzling into her neck.

The heat in Jessica’s face didn’t seem to drain out, as she still felt the electricity running through her. Kris gave a peck on the nape of her neck before shifting off of her and plopping himself beside her instead.

“We should get up now, if you still want to go shopping.” Kris spoke up, reminding her of her plans for the day.

This made Jessica turn towards him with eyes of realization. She happily jumped off the bed and sped herself into the bathroom to get herself freshened up for the day. Kris only scrunched up his lips, not looking forward to spending long hours with three women, excluding Jessica.

After the two had gotten ready, they made their way downstairs for breakfast. To their surprise, everyone was already seated at the table. Kris scrunched his eyebrows when he saw Michael sitting there as well.

“Unnie! What took you so long? Sit!” Krystal gestured to the seat beside her.

Smiling, Jessica gladly took a seat and glanced up at Kris expectedly. Of course, Kris sat in the seat next to her. Mommy Wu suddenly came out from the kitchen with a big dish of hash browns and placed them on the table next to the other dishes of breakfast before sitting down next to Father Wu.

“Good morning!” Mommy Wu greeted everyone, to which everyone happily greeted back. “Let’s eat!” she gave her eye smile, lighting up the atmosphere even more.

As soon as everyone was digging in and making small conversations with each other, Mommy Wu had noticed Jessica was extra attentive and even motherly towards Krystal. She had caught glances of Jessica even feeding Krystal.

“You’re such a wonderful sister, Jessi.” Mommy Wu commented, smiling widely. “Krystal just looks like you.”

Krystal brightened up, nodding her head, “I’m pretty like my sister, right?” she grinned playfully.

Mommy Wu giggled at Krystal’s cuteness before nodding her head in agreement.

“Soojungie needs to be looked after. She can be a troublemaker at times.” Jessica pinched Krystal’s cheek lightly.

Krystal retorted with a pout, “Not always! I know you love me anyways!”

“I have no choice but to love you.” Jessica let go of Krystal’s cheek and planted a sisterly kiss instead. “Now wipe your mouth.” She handed her a napkin.

“It’s like watching a mother and daughter sometimes.” Tiffany sighed sarcastically.

Krystal blinked at Tiffany, “Then unnie is also my mom too! Fany is like a mom to me too!”

Mommy Wu chuckled, adoring the girls. “Seems like you have a lot of loving mothers, Krystal.”

“Yeah…I still wonder how.” Kris suddenly barged into the conversation, irritated that Jessica was paying less attention to him for practically the entire time they started breakfast.

Glaring down at Kris, Krystal stuck her tongue out at him. “Says the old man.”

Kris’s jaw slacked, making his mouth agape. “I thought you promised to call me that anymore, you little kid!”

“I’m of age now!” Krystal retorted, correcting him. “I can’t help but see oldness whenever I look at you!”

Kris gritted his teeth at her, “I am not old! If I’m old, than you’re old too!”

Krystal gasped, “How am I old?! Just because I’m of age, doesn’t make me old! I’m still in college!”

Everyone at the table looked at the two quarrel with each other in great amusement. Never in their lives have they ever thought that Kris would have such a childish argument with an eighteen year old. Snickers and suppressed laughs were barely heard as the two argued back and forth. Even Kris’s parents were finding the scene entertaining.

“Guys,” Jessica was the only who could stop the two. “Let’s not argue in my ears.” She glanced at the two people that she was sandwiched in between.

“Sorry,” the two simultaneously apologized to Jessica before shooting each other an agitated glare.

Jessica knew they were throwing mean looks at each other, judging from their past fights. “Soojung, apologize to Kris for calling him old.”

Krystal was about to retort, but received a stern look from her sister and sighed. “Sorry, Kris.” She apologized unwillingly.

Kris was grinning in victory, until Jessica told him to apologize to Krystal. “Kris, apologize to Soojung for provoking her.” Her eyes stared at him in expectance.

“Sorry, Krystal.” Kris gritted his teeth.

Jessica grinned, happy that they don’t have to fight and yell in her ear anymore.

Everyone, excluding the three, was looking at Jessica with raised eyebrows. Seems like Jessica was sandwiched between her two loved ones, who seem to argue with each other frequently.

“I agree with Krystal. Kris is pretty old looking.” Michael suddenly spoke up with laughter.

Kris shot him a glare. “You’re only a couple years younger than me.” he reminded his cousin. “And why are you even here?”

Michael grimaced, “Why can’t I be here? I just wanted to see if you wanted to play some basketball with me...”

Tao blinked with big eyes, “Are we talking about basketball?” he questioned, not understanding the English that was being said. “I want to go!” he exclaimed in mandarin.

“Take Tao with you. I can’t go. I’ll be with Jess.” Kris decided with finality.

Michael frowned, “Aw, I thought we could play like the old days along with Tao. The three of us.”

Kris shrugged, shaking his head. “I think I’m going to stick with my girlfriend. She could get hurt and she just got out of the hospital. Not risking anything.”

“YiFan, go ahead and play with them.” Mommy Wu spoke up. “Us girls are only going on a shopping spree. You’ll be bored. You haven’t gotten a chance to even touch a basketball, let alone play with Michael. Since you’re back here, why don’t you just play with Michael this once before you go back?” she urged her son to go with Michael.

Kris sighed before looking at Jessica. Jessica only gave him an encouraging smile and nod. Wanting him to go and have fun, Jessica didn’t want him to dread walking around with a bunch of girls for hours. She knew that Kris hasn’t been able to do anything memorable ever since he got back, all because of the sudden turmoils that had taken place, so she wants him to have fun.

“Go,” Jessica reinforced his mother’s words. “I promise I will be safe and I’ll try my best not to be clumsy.